Mailing carton



Dec. 3, 1935. c. WEL-:Ks

MAILING CARTON Filed Jan. 24, 1954 OQVZIWVZO/ v Patented Dec. 3, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MAILING CARTON Charles Weeks, Des Moines, Iowa, assignor to The Armand Company, Des Moines, Iowa, a corporation of Iowa.

Application January 24, 1934, Serial No. 708,060

1 Claim. (Cl. 20G-44) The object of my invention is to provide a have a top I0, sides II and I3 and a bottom I2. mailing carton of very simple andjnexpensive The top III has the end flaps I, the side Ii the construction. in which a plurality of packages or end aps I5, the bottom I2, the end aps I6, and letters or the like may be held, and which will the side I3 has the end flaps I'I.

5 permit inspection of the address or at least the The end flaps I5 are provided with the project- 5 city and state of the address of the top package ing small tongues I9. The end iiaps I6 have the or letter, and which will likewise permit inspecextended aps or flanges 20.

tion and counting oi the packages or letters for Between the end flaps It and the bottom I2 are determining the number thereof. the slots 2l to receive the tongues I9.

l0 With this and other objects in view, my in- One of the walls I Il or I3, for instance the wall 10 vention consists in the construction, arrange- I3 iS provided With a IlaITOW Sealing flap 22.

ment and combination of the various parts of my One wall of the carton, preferably the top wall mailing carton,rwhereby the objects contemplated I0 is provided with an opening 23, through which are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, the address of the topi member of the contents of pointed out in my claim, and illustrated in the the carton may be conveniently read. Another 15 accompanying drawing, in which: wall of the carton, which should be at right angles Figure 1 is a perspective view' of a mailing carto the wall I in the nished carton, and which ton embodying my invention. in the illustration shown is the wall I 3, is provided Figure 2 is a blank from which the carton is with a slot 24, extending clear across it forpermade; and mitting inspection and counting of the contents 20 Figure 3 is a detailed, sectional view taken on of the finished carton. the. line 3 3 of Figure 1. In Figure 1, I have shown the carton com- Many commercial rms find it desirable to pleted and containing a series of letters or the send out at one time a considerable number of like 25.

letters or packages addressed to one town. For In completing the carton from the blank, the 25 example, a manufacturer of cosmetics may dewall I3 is bent upwardly at right angles to the sire to mail to the town of Adel, Iowa, thirty lwall I2, and the wall II is bent upwardly at right letters, each containing a small sample of face angles from the wall I2, and the wall it is then powder and a letter or circular. If the thirty bent over at right angles to the wall I I to form letters are dumped into the mail in the ordinary the top of the carton. The sealing flap 22 is then 30 way, the postal clerks must sort thirty individual folded under the wall IIJ and sealed thereunder. letters in preparing the mail for transmission. The aps I5 and I'I are folded to overlapping On the other hand, if these thirty letters are kept position for closing the ends of the carton, and together, the labor or the postal clerks is conthe flaps I 6 are then folded upwardly. The ex- 55 siderably reduced. tension flaps 20 are bent and slipped under the 35 Furthermore, it is often desirable to keep the top 20. Thereupon the iaps I4 are folded down, letters together, so as to keep them clean. This and the tongues I9 inserted through the slots 2 I. is especially true in the case ot' -cosmetics and In the carton as thus finished, the opening 23 cosmetic advertisements, where there is an appeal is so arranged that the top one of a series of 40 to the sthetic taste. Merely tying the letters letters or the like received in the carton may be together with a cord might save labor, but it does so addressed that the town and state of the adnot accomplish the purpose of keeping them as dress will be adjacent the opening 23 and readily clean as possible until they reach the town of seen therethrough. their destination. Adjacent the top member I0, one of the walls,

I have provided a carton in which such a group for example the side wall I3, will have the slot 24 45 of thirty letters may" be conveniently enclosed. extending from top to bottom, so that the num- Such a carton is shown in my drawing. ber of the letters 25 may be conveniently counted.

In Figure 2, I have shown the blank from which Thus where mail is sent under the pre-paid the carton is formed. The carton is made froma scheme, the post-cnice oficial can count the substantially rectangular sheet of cardboard. number of letters or the like in the carton and 50 The shape of the blank is shown in Figure2. The enter the charge against the rm mailing the full lines within the outline of the blank indicate package. The town and state address may be cut edges, and the do-tted lines indicate creased readily inspected and the mail need not be relines. moved from the package until it reaches its desti- Thus the carton, indicated generally at A, will nation town. 55

I preferably provide the top Wall l0 on the outside with certain legends, as for example- Contents Faced mail, Postage prepaid on each piece, Direct package for.

With a carton of this kind, the contents of the carton can be kept clean until they reach'the town to which the mail is addressed. They are kept in one package to reduce the labor of postal clerks to a minimum. The address can be readily of pieces of mail addressed to the same general location but to different individuals, and an enclosing carton receiving said stack, and havingY a top, bottom, side and end Walls, the top Wall having an elongated opening and the top member of the stack having an address thereon visible through said opening, said carton bearing in dicating characters to indicate that the carton contains mail for the address visible through the said opening, one of the Walls of the carton at right angles to the top Wall being provided with an opening extending entirely across it vertically to permit counting the pieces of mail in the stack, said carton having one of its ends composed of flap members adapted in one position to cooperate with the other walls in such manner as to retain the mail matter in the carton 'and in another position to permit removal and further inspection of the mail matter Without destroying or collapsing the carton.

CHARLES WEEKS. 

